Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Massenet

Henceforth there will be no letters to answer; I have bade farewell to first performances and the literary and other discussions which come from them.

Richard Crashaw

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

Robin Hobb

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Walter Savage Landor

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Yann Martel

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

Jorge Luis Borges

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

Khalil Gibran

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

David Brenner

You weren't doing a Cher thing. This wasn't your 12th farewell tour.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Rob Corddry

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

Truman Capote

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

William Wordsworth

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Valentino Garavani

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Walter Map

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

William Penn

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

Jerry Nelson

John Belushi always hated the puppets. He just hated them with a passion.

Shania Twain

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

Carolyn Freeman

I thought what a wonderful thing it is to leave a legacy to this world, which he has, because his music is his legacy. I hated to see it just go away.

Craig Venter

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

Neal Pilson

He was the most talked about television personality of all time. Whether you loved him or hated him, people wanted to hear what he had to say.

Gary Mormino

He was the most hated man in North Florida.

Peter Wagner

He hated to be away from Judy. He would very seldom spend the night without his wife.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

Lauren Oliver

I’ve always hated being looked at.